{"id":1817,"date":"2016-08-17T07:55:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2016-08-20T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T01:47:56","slug":"classic-insults-and-barbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Classic insults and barbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to four-letter words. When writers and speakers pondered upon words and weighed each of them before making a sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. \u2013 Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. \u2013 Clarence Darrow<\/li>\n<li>Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I&#8217;ll waste no time reading it. &#8211; Moses Hadas<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. &#8211; Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li>I feel so miserable without you; it&#8217;s almost like having you here. &#8211; Stephen Bishop<\/li>\n<li>He is a self-made man and worships his creator. &#8211; John Bright<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve just learned about his illness. Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s nothing trivial. &#8211; Irvin S. Cobb<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others. &#8211; Samuel Johnson<\/li>\n<li>He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. &#8211; Paul Keating<\/li>\n<li>In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. &#8211; Charles, Count Talleyrand<\/li>\n<li>He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. &#8211; Forrest Tucker<\/li>\n<li>Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? &#8211; Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. &#8211; Mae West<\/li>\n<li>Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li>He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts &#8230; For support rather than illumination. &#8211; Andrew Lang (1844-1912)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn&#8217;t it. &#8211; Groucho Marx<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won&#8217;t cure. &#8211; Jack E. Leonard<\/li>\n<li>He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. &#8211; Robert Redford<\/li>\n<li>They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. &#8211; Thomas Brackett Reed<\/li>\n<li>He has Van Gogh&#8217;s ear for music. &#8211; Billy Wilder<\/li>\n<li>He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>He\u2019s a modest little person, with much to be modest about. &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend &#8230; if you have one. &#8211; George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill. \u00a0Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second &#8230; if there is one. &#8211; Winston Churchill (in response)<\/li>\n<li>The exchange between Churchill &amp; Lady Astor: She said, &#8220;If you were my husband, I&#8217;d give you poison.&#8221; He said, &#8220;If you were my wife, I&#8217;d drink it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A Member of Parliament to Disraeli: &#8220;Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.&#8221; &#8220;That depends, Sir,&#8221; said Disraeli, &#8220;whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @ <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to four-letter words. When writers and speakers pondered upon words and weighed each of them before making a sentence. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. \u2013 Winston Churchill I have never killed a man,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[49,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}